package Newt; use strict qw(vars); use Carp; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $AUTOLOAD @TOP); use AutoLoader; require Exporter; require DynaLoader; *Newt::Form::AUTOLOAD = \&Newt::AUTOLOAD; @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader); # Items to export into callers namespace by default. Note: do not export # names by default without a very good reason. Use EXPORT_OK instead. # Do not simply export all your public functions/methods/constants. @EXPORT_OK = qw( H_NEWT NEWT_ANCHOR_BOTTOM NEWT_ANCHOR_LEFT NEWT_ANCHOR_RIGHT NEWT_ANCHOR_TOP NEWT_ARG_APPEND NEWT_ARG_LAST NEWT_COLORSET_ACTBUTTON NEWT_COLORSET_ACTCHECKBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ACTLISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ACTSELLISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ACTTEXTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_BORDER NEWT_COLORSET_BUTTON NEWT_COLORSET_CHECKBOX NEWT_COLORSET_COMPACTBUTTON NEWT_COLORSET_DISENTRY NEWT_COLORSET_EMPTYSCALE NEWT_COLORSET_ENTRY NEWT_COLORSET_FULLSCALE NEWT_COLORSET_HELPLINE NEWT_COLORSET_LABEL NEWT_COLORSET_LISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ROOT NEWT_COLORSET_ROOTTEXT NEWT_COLORSET_SELLISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_SHADOW NEWT_COLORSET_TEXTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_THREEDBOX NEWT_COLORSET_TITLE NEWT_COLORSET_WINDOW NEWT_ENTRY_DISABLED NEWT_ENTRY_HIDDEN NEWT_ENTRY_RETURNEXIT NEWT_ENTRY_SCROLL NEWT_FD_READ NEWT_FD_WRITE NEWT_FLAG_BORDER NEWT_FLAG_CHECKBOX NEWT_FLAG_DISABLED NEWT_FLAG_HIDDEN NEWT_FLAG_MULTIPLE NEWT_FLAG_NOF12 NEWT_FLAG_RETURNEXIT NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL NEWT_FLAG_SELECTED NEWT_FLAG_WRAP NEWT_FORM_NOF12 NEWT_GRID_FLAG_GROWX NEWT_GRID_FLAG_GROWY NEWT_KEY_BKSPC NEWT_KEY_DELETE NEWT_KEY_DOWN NEWT_KEY_END NEWT_KEY_ENTER NEWT_KEY_ESCAPE NEWT_KEY_EXTRA_BASE NEWT_KEY_F1 NEWT_KEY_F10 NEWT_KEY_F11 NEWT_KEY_F12 NEWT_KEY_F2 NEWT_KEY_F3 NEWT_KEY_F4 NEWT_KEY_F5 NEWT_KEY_F6 NEWT_KEY_F7 NEWT_KEY_F8 NEWT_KEY_F9 NEWT_KEY_HOME NEWT_KEY_INSERT NEWT_KEY_LEFT NEWT_KEY_PGDN NEWT_KEY_PGUP NEWT_KEY_RESIZE NEWT_KEY_RETURN NEWT_KEY_RIGHT NEWT_KEY_SUSPEND NEWT_KEY_TAB NEWT_KEY_UNTAB NEWT_KEY_UP NEWT_LISTBOX_RETURNEXIT NEWT_TEXTBOX_SCROLL NEWT_TEXTBOX_WRAP NEWT_EXIT_HOTKEY NEWT_EXIT_COMPONENT NEWT_EXIT_FOREADY OK_BUTTON CANCEL_BUTTON QUIT_BUTTON BACK_BUTTON OK_CANCEL_PANEL OK_BACK_PANEL newtGridDestroy newtListboxAddEntry ); %EXPORT_TAGS = (exits => [qw(NEWT_EXIT_HOTKEY NEWT_EXIT_COMPONENT NEWT_EXIT_FOREADY)], keys => [qw(NEWT_KEY_BKSPC NEWT_KEY_DELETE NEWT_KEY_DOWN NEWT_KEY_END NEWT_KEY_ENTER NEWT_KEY_ESCAPE NEWT_KEY_EXTRA_BASE NEWT_KEY_F1 NEWT_KEY_F10 NEWT_KEY_F11 NEWT_KEY_F12 NEWT_KEY_F2 NEWT_KEY_F3 NEWT_KEY_F4 NEWT_KEY_F5 NEWT_KEY_F6 NEWT_KEY_F7 NEWT_KEY_F8 NEWT_KEY_F9 NEWT_KEY_HOME NEWT_KEY_INSERT NEWT_KEY_LEFT NEWT_KEY_PGDN NEWT_KEY_PGUP NEWT_KEY_RESIZE NEWT_KEY_RETURN NEWT_KEY_RIGHT NEWT_KEY_SUSPEND NEWT_KEY_TAB NEWT_KEY_UNTAB NEWT_KEY_UP)], anchors => [qw( NEWT_ANCHOR_BOTTOM NEWT_ANCHOR_LEFT NEWT_ANCHOR_RIGHT NEWT_ANCHOR_TOP)], argss => [qw(NEWT_ARG_APPEND NEWT_ARG_LAST)], colorsets => [qw(NEWT_COLORSET_ACTBUTTON NEWT_COLORSET_ACTCHECKBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ACTLISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ACTSELLISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ACTTEXTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_BORDER NEWT_COLORSET_BUTTON NEWT_COLORSET_CHECKBOX NEWT_COLORSET_COMPACTBUTTON NEWT_COLORSET_DISENTRY NEWT_COLORSET_EMPTYSCALE NEWT_COLORSET_ENTRY NEWT_COLORSET_FULLSCALE NEWT_COLORSET_HELPLINE NEWT_COLORSET_LABEL NEWT_COLORSET_LISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_ROOT NEWT_COLORSET_ROOTTEXT NEWT_COLORSET_SELLISTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_SHADOW NEWT_COLORSET_TEXTBOX NEWT_COLORSET_THREEDBOX NEWT_COLORSET_TITLE NEWT_COLORSET_WINDOW)], flags => [qw(NEWT_FLAG_DISABLED NEWT_FLAG_BORDER NEWT_FLAG_CHECKBOX NEWT_FLAG_HIDDEN NEWT_FLAG_MULTIPLE NEWT_FLAG_NOF12 NEWT_FLAG_RETURNEXIT NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL NEWT_FLAG_SELECTED NEWT_FLAG_WRAP)], entry => [qw(NEWT_ENTRY_DISABLED NEWT_ENTRY_HIDDEN NEWT_ENTRY_RETURNEXIT NEWT_ENTRY_SCROLL)], fd => [qw(NEWT_FD_READ NEWT_FD_WRITE)], grid => [qw(NEWT_GRID_FLAG_GROWX NEWT_GRID_FLAG_GROWY)], other => [qw(NEWT_FORM_NOF12 NEWT_LISTBOX_RETURNEXIT)], textbox => [qw(NEWT_TEXTBOX_SCROLL NEWT_TEXTBOX_WRAP)], macros => [qw(OK_BUTTON CANCEL_BUTTON QUIT_BUTTON BACK_BUTTON OK_CANCEL_PANEL OK_BACK_PANEL)], ); $VERSION = do { my @r=(q$Revision: 1.8 $=~/\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d"x$#r,@r }; @TOP = (); # Window stack; sub AUTOLOAD { # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant() # XS function. If a constant is not found then control is passed # to the AUTOLOAD in AutoLoader. my $constname; ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://; croak "& not defined" if $constname eq 'constant'; my $val = constant($constname, @_ ? $_[0] : 0); if ($! != 0) { $AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = $AUTOLOAD; goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD; } *$AUTOLOAD = sub { $val }; goto &$AUTOLOAD; } bootstrap Newt $VERSION; # Preloaded methods go here. sub NEWT_EXIT_HOTKEY () { 0; } sub NEWT_EXIT_COMPONENT () { 1; } sub NEWT_EXIT_FOREADY () { 2; } sub Newt::Form { my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtForm(); bless $self, "Newt::Form"; } sub Newt::Button { my ($caption, $compact) = @_; my $self = {}; if($compact) { $self->{co} = newtCompactButton(-1, -1, $caption); } else { $self->{co} = newtButton(-1, -1, $caption); } bless $self, "Newt::Button"; } sub Newt::Label { my $caption = "@_"; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtLabel(-1, -1, $caption); bless $self, "Newt::Label"; } sub Newt::Entry { my ($width, $flags, $default) = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtEntry(-1, -1, $default ? $default : '', $width, $flags); bless $self, "Newt::Entry"; } sub Newt::Checkbox { my ($caption, $default, $valid) = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtCheckbox(-1, -1, $caption, $default ? $default : ' ', $valid ? $valid : ' *'); bless $self, "Newt::Checkbox"; } sub Newt::Listbox { my ($height, $flags) = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{flags} = $flags ? $flags : 0; $self->{co} = newtListbox(-1, -1, $height, $self->{flags}); $self->{items} = {}; bless $self, "Newt::Listbox"; } sub Newt::Scale { my ($width, $fullvalue) = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtScale(-1, -1, $width, $fullvalue); bless $self, "Newt::Scale"; } sub Newt::Textbox { my ($width, $height, $flags, @rest) = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtTextbox(-1, -1, $width, $height, $flags ? $flags : 0); bless $self, "Newt::Textbox"; $self->Set(@rest) if @rest; $self; } sub Newt::TextboxReflowed { my ($width, $flexdown, $flexup, $flags, @text) = @_; my $text = "@text"; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtTextboxReflowed(-1, -1, $text, $width, $flexdown, $flexup, $flags ? $flags : 0); bless $self, "Newt::Textbox"; } sub Newt::VScrollbar { my ($height, $normalColorset, $thumbColorset) = @_; my $self = {}; $self->{co} = newtVerticalScrollbar(-1, -1, $height, $normalColorset, $thumbColorset); } sub Newt::Panel { my ($cols, $rows, $title) = @_; my $self = Newt::Form(); $self->{g} = newtCreateGrid($cols, $rows); $self->{refs} = {}; $self->{title} = $title if $title; bless $self, "Newt::Panel"; } sub Newt::HRadiogroup { my $self = {}; my $radio; my $pos = 0; $self = {}; $self->{g} = newtCreateGrid(scalar(@_), 1); foreach(@_) { if ($radio) { $radio = newtRadiobutton(-1, -1, $_, 0, $radio); } else { $radio = newtRadiobutton(-1, -1, $_, 1); } push @{$self->{'components'}}, $radio; Newt::newtGridSetField($self->{g}, $pos, 0, 1, $radio, 1, 0, 0, 0,0, 0); $pos++; } Newt::newtGridPlace($self->{g}, 1, 1); bless $self, "Newt::Radiogroup"; } sub Newt::VRadiogroup { my $self = {}; my $radio; my $pos = 0; $self = {}; $self->{g} = newtCreateGrid(1, scalar(@_)); foreach(@_) { if ($radio) { $radio = newtRadiobutton(-1, -1, $_, 0, $radio); } else { $radio = newtRadiobutton(-1, -1, $_, 1); } push @{$self->{'components'}}, $radio; Newt::newtGridSetField($self->{g}, 0, $pos, 1, $radio, 0, 0, 0, 0,0, 0); $pos++; } Newt::newtGridPlace($self->{g}, 1, 1); bless $self, "Newt::Radiogroup"; } # Macro facilities sub Newt::OK_BUTTON () { Newt::Button('OK')->Tag('OK'); } sub Newt::CANCEL_BUTTON () { Newt::Button('Cancel')->Tag('CANCEL'); } sub Newt::QUIT_BUTTON () { Newt::Button('Quit')->Tag('QUIT'); } sub Newt::BACK_BUTTON () { Newt::Button('Back')->Tag('BACK'); } sub Newt::OK_CANCEL_PANEL () { Newt::Panel(2, 1) ->Add(0, 0, OK_BUTTON(), NEWT_ANCHOR_RIGHT(), 0, 1, 1, 0) ->Add(1, 0, CANCEL_BUTTON(), NEWT_ANCHOR_LEFT(), 1, 1, 0, 0); } sub Newt::OK_BACK_PANEL () { Newt::Panel(2, 1) ->Add(0, 0, OK_BUTTON, NEWT_ANCHOR_RIGHT, 0, 0, 1, 0) ->Add(1, 0, BACK_BUTTON, NEWT_ANCHOR_LEFT, 1, 0, 0, 0); } @Newt::Component::ISA = qw(Newt); @Newt::Form::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Button::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Entry::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Label::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Checkbox::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Scale::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Textbox::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::VScrollbar::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Listbox::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); @Newt::Panel::ISA = qw(Newt::Form); @Newt::Radiogroup::ISA = qw(Newt::Component); # Autoload methods go after =cut, and are processed by the autosplit program. 1; __END__ ########################### Newt::Component sub Newt::Component::AddCallback { my ($self, $cb) = @_; Newt::newtComponentAddCallback($self->{co}, $cb); $self; } sub Newt::Component::TakesFocus { my ($self, $yesorno) = @_; Newt::newtComponentTakesFocus($self->{co}, $yesorno); $self; } sub Newt::Component::GetComponent { my $self = shift; return (1, $self->{co}); } sub Newt::Component::Tag { my ($self, $tag) = @_; if ($tag) { $self->{tag} = $tag; return $self; } else { return $self->{tag}; } } ########################### Newt::Form sub Newt::Form::AddHotKey { my ($self, $key) = @_; Newt::newtFormAddHotKey($self->{co}, $key); $self; } sub Newt::Form::Add { my $self = shift; foreach (@_) { Newt::newtFormAddComponent($self->{co}, $_->{co}); } $self; } sub Newt::Form::SetBackground { my ($self, $color) = @_; Newt::newtFormSetBackground($self->{co}, $color); $self; } sub Newt::Form::SetHeight { my ($self, $height) = @_; Newt::newtFormSetHeight($self->{co}, $height); $self; } sub Newt::Form::Draw { my $self = shift; Newt::newtDrawForm($self->{co}); $self; } sub Newt::Form::Focus { my ($self, $comp) = @_; Newt::newtFormSetCurrent($self->{co}, $comp->{co}); $self; } sub Newt::Form::Run { my $self = shift; return Newt::newtFormRun($self->{co}); } sub Newt::Form::GetCurrent { my $self = shift; return Newt::newtFormGetCurrent($self->{co}); } ########################### Newt::Label sub Newt::Label::Set { my ($self, @text) = @_; Newt::newtLabelSetText($self->{co}, "@text"); $self; } ########################### Newt::Entry sub Newt::Entry::Get { my $self = shift; return Newt::newtEntryGetValue($self->{co}); } sub Newt::Entry::Set { my ($self, $text, $atEnd) = @_; Newt::newtEntrySet($self->{co}, $text || "", $atEnd ? $atEnd : 0); $self; } sub Newt::Entry::SetFilter { my ($self, $filter) = @_; Newt::newtEntrySetFilter($self->{co}, $filter); $self; } ########################### Newt::Checkbox sub Newt::Checkbox::Get { my $self = shift; return Newt::newtCheckboxGetValue($self->{co}); } sub Newt::Checkbox::Checked { my $self = shift; return $self->Get() ne " "; } ########################### Newt::Radiogroup sub Newt::Radiogroup::Get { my $self = shift; my $index = 0; foreach (@{$self->{components}}) { return $index if ${Newt::newtRadioGetCurrent($_)} eq ${$_}; $index++; } } sub Newt::Radiogroup::GetComponent { my $self = shift; return (2, $self->{g}); } ########################### Newt::Listbox sub Newt::Listbox::Append { my $self = shift; foreach (@_) { $self->{items}{$_} = $_; Newt::newtListboxAppendEntry($self->{co}, $_, $self->{items}{$_}); } $self; } sub Newt::Listbox::Insert { my $self = shift; my $before = shift; foreach (@_) { $self->{items}{$_} = $_; Newt::newtListboxInsertEntry($self->{co}, $_, $self->{items}{$_}, $self->{items}{$before}); } $self; } sub Newt::Listbox::Delete { my $self = shift; foreach (@_) { Newt::newtListboxDeleteEntry($self->{co}, $self->{items}{$_}); } $self; } sub Newt::Listbox::Clear { my $self = shift; Newt::newtListboxClear($self->{co}); $self; } sub Newt::Listbox::Select { my $self = shift; foreach (@_) { Newt::newtListboxSelectItem($self->{co}, $self->{items}{$_}, 0) } $self; } sub Newt::Listbox::Unselect { my $self = shift; foreach (@_) { Newt::newtListboxSelectItem($self->{co}, $self->{items}{$_}, 1) } $self; } sub Newt::Listbox::Get { my $self = shift; if ($self->{flags} & Newt::constant(NEWT_FLAG_MULTIPLE, 0)) { return Newt::newtListboxGetSelection($self->{co}); } else { return Newt::newtListboxGetCurrent($self->{co}); } } ########################### Newt::Scale sub Newt::Scale::Set { my ($self, $amount) = @_; Newt::newtScaleSet($self->{co}, $amount || 0); $self; } ########################### Newt::Textbox sub Newt::Textbox::Set { my $self = shift; Newt::newtTextboxSetText($self->{co}, "@_"); $self; } ########################### Newt::Panel sub Newt::Panel::Move { my ($self, $left, $top) = @_; $self->{left} = $left; $self->{top} = $top; if($self->{drawed}) { $self->Hide; $self->Draw; } $self; } sub Newt::Panel::Add { my ($self, $col, $row, $comp, $anchor, $padLeft, $padTop, $padRight, $padBottom, $flags) = @_; Carp::croak "Can only add components!" if ! UNIVERSAL::isa($comp, 'Newt::Component'); Newt::newtGridSetField($self->{g}, $col, $row, ($comp->GetComponent()), $padLeft ? $padLeft : 0, $padTop ? $padTop : 0, $padRight ? $padRight : 0, $padBottom ? $padBottom : 0, $anchor ? $anchor : 0, $flags ? $flags : 0); $self->{refs}{${$comp->{co}}} = $comp if exists $comp->{co}; $self; } sub Newt::Panel::GetComponent { my $self = shift; return (2, $self->{g}); } sub Newt::Panel::Pack { my $self = shift; Newt::newtGridAddComponentsToForm($self->{g}, $self->{co}, 1) if ! $self->{packed}; $self->{packed} = 1; } sub Newt::Panel::Draw { my ($self) = @_; $self->Pack(); $self->Hide if(@TOP && $TOP[-1] ne $self); if(!$self->{drawed}) { if(exists($self->{left}) and exists($self->{top})) { Newt::newtGridWrappedWindowAt($self->{g}, $self->{title}, $self->{left}, $self->{top}); } else { Newt::newtGridWrappedWindow($self->{g}, $self->{title}); } $self->SUPER::Draw(); $self->{drawed} = 1; push(@TOP,$self); } $self; } sub Newt::Panel::_upgrade { my $self = shift; my @upgraded = (); for my $k (keys(%{$self->{refs}})) { my $comp = $self->{refs}{$k}; if(UNIVERSAL::isa($comp,'Newt::Panel')) { push(@upgraded,$comp->_upgrade); %{$comp->{refs}} = (); } else { push(@upgraded,($k=>$comp)); } } return @upgraded; } sub Newt::Panel::upgrade { my $self = shift; %{$self->{refs}} = $self->_upgrade; } sub Newt::Panel::Run { my ($self,$tr) = @_; my ($reason, $data); $self->Draw; $self->upgrade; ($reason, $data) = $self->SUPER::Run(); $self->Hide if($tr); if (ref($data)) { $data = $self->{refs}{$$data}; } return wantarray ? ($reason, $data) : $data; } sub Newt::Panel::Hide { my $self = shift; my @tops = (); return unless $self->{drawed}; while(my $top = pop(@TOP)) { Newt::PopWindow(); $top->{drawed} = 0; last if($top eq $self); unshift @tops,$top; } for(@tops) { $_->Draw; } $self; } # Below is the stub of documentation for your module. You better edit it! =head1 NAME Newt - Perl bindings for Red Hat newt library =head1 SYNOPSIS use Newt; Newt::Init(); Newt::Cls(); #A lot of Newt operations... Newt::Finished(); =head1 DESCRIPTION The Newt module implements perl bindings for the Red Hat newt windowing system, a terminal-based window and widget library for writing applications with a simple, but user-friendly, interface. =head1 Basic Newt functions =over =item C Starts Newt services. You must use this command first. =item C Ends Newt services. =item C Clears the background. =item C Foreces an inmediate update of the modified portions of the screen. =item C Sends a beep to the terminal. =item C Returns a tuple containing the screen dimensions. =back =head1 Keyboard input =over =item C Stops program execution until a key is pressed. =item C Discards the contents of the terminal's input buffer without waiting for additional input. =back =head1 Drawing text on the root window =over =item C Displays the text in the indicated position. =item C Saves the current help line on a stack and displays the new line. If the text is null, Newt's default help line is displayed. If text is a string of length 0, the help line is cleared. =item C Replaces the current help line with the previous one. It is important not to pop more lines than the ones pushed. =back =head1 Suspending Newt applications By default, Newt programs cannot be suspended by the user. Instead, programs can specify a callback function which gets invoked whe the user presses the suspend key. To register such function, you can do something like this: sub my_cb { ... } Newt::SetSuspendCallback(\&my_cb); If the application should suspend and continue like most user applications, the suspend callback needs two other newt functions: Newt::Suspend(); Newt::Resume(); The first one tells Newt to return the terminal to its initial state. Once this is done, the application can suspend itself by sending SIGSTP, fork a child program or whatever. When it wants to resume using the Newt interface, is must call C before doing so. For more information on suspending newt applications, read the original newt documentation. =head1 Components Components are the basic blocks for construction of Newt interfaces. They all are created in a similar manner. You just have to call the constructor to receive a blessed object of the specified class: $object = Newt::Foo(); Once you have a component, you can add it to a panel to create a complex user input interface. =head2 General component manipulation You can attach a callback for a component like this: sub comp_cb { ... } $component->AddCallback(\%comp_cb); Exactly when (if ever) the callback is invoked depens on the type of the component. Yo can tell if a component takes or not focus when traversing a form with the following function: $component->TakesFocus($true_or_false); It is handy to set some arbitrary information on a component for later retrieval. You do this by setting its tag: $button->Tag("OK"); If you call this function without an argument, it replies with the actual tag for that component. In general when the return value of any method of a component isn't described the method returns the component itself to allow constructions like: $panel ->Add(0,0, $componet1->Set( .... ) ) ->Add(0,1, Newt::Label( .... ) ) ->Add(0,2, Newt::Panel( .... ) ->Add( .... ) ->Add( .... ) ) ->Add( .... ); =head2 Buttons There are two kinds of buttons: full and compact: $normal_button = Newt::Button($text); $compact_button = Newt::CompactButton($text); =head2 Labels Labels are quite simple: $label = Newt::Label($text); You can set the text of an existing label like this: $label->Set($text); =head2 Entry boxes Entry boxes are used to enter text: $entry = Newt::Entry($width, $flags, $initial_text); The initial text is optional. After an entry has been created, it's contents can be set by using: $entry->Set($text, $cursor_at_end); The last parameter is optional, and signals if the cursor should be moved to the end of the new value. To get the current value of the entry box, you do this: $entry->Get(); You can filter the characters that may be entered by using a callback filter like this: sub my_filter { my ($proposed_char, $cursor_position) = @_; ... return(0) if $char_shoud_be_ignored; return($proposed_char) # Accept the char } $entry->SetFilter(\&my_filter); As can be seen, filter callbacks receive a char and an integer which indicates the position that the proposed char would take on the entry. The filter function can return the very same char to indicate that it was accepted, but it can also return another char, to actually substitute the original one. If the filter wants to simply reject the keystroke, it only returns 0. When an entry is created, some flags may be specified. The flags are the following and may be Ced: =over =item C If not specified, the user cannot enter text into the entry box which is wider than the entry box itself. This flag removes this limitation, and lets the user enter data of an arbitrary length. =item C If specified, the value of the entry is not displayed. Useful when an applications needs a password. =item C When specified, the entry will cause the form to stop running if the user pressed return inside the entry box. Nice shortcut for users. =back =head2 Checkboxes Newt checkboxes are peculiar, since they may have more than two states. To create a normal one (checked or unchecked), do this: $check = Newt::Checkbox("Normal checkbox"); But you can create, for example, a checkbox that switches from not checked to checked with an asterisk and then to checked with an 'M': $check = Newt::Checkbox("Normal checkbox", " ", " *M"); As you can see, you can use the two optional parameters to tell the default char first and then the possible chars. To know if a checkbox is checked after the for is ran, you use the following: print "Is checked\n" if $check->Checked(); And you can always get the actual state like this: $state = $check->Get(); =head2 Radio groups You create two kinds of radio button groups, vertical and horizontal, by doing this: $radio_group1 = Newt::VRadiogroup('Red', 'Green', 'Blue'); $radio_group2 = Newt::HRadiogroup('Red', 'Green', 'Blue'); You can put any number of options and the first one will always be preselected. To know the index of the selected option after the form has run, you do this: $index = $radio_group->Get(); =head2 Listboxes Listboxes are the most complicated components Newt provides. They can allow single or multiple selection, and are easy to update. They are created as follows: $listbox = Newt::Listbox($height, $flags); A listbox is created at a certain position and a given height. The C<$height> is used for two things. First of all, it is the minimum height the listbox will use. If there are less items in the listbox then the height, suggests the listbox will still take up that minimum amount of space. Secondly, if the listbox is set to be scrollable (by setting the C flag, C<$height> is also the maximum height of the listbox. If the listbox may not scroll, it increases its height to display all of its items. The following flags may be used when creating a listbox: =over =item C The listbox should scroll to display all of the items it contains. =item C When the user presses return on an item in the list, the form should return. =item C A frame is drawn around the listbox, which can make it easier to see which listbox has the focus when a form contains multiple listboxes. =item C By default, a listbox only lets the user select one item in the list at a time. When this flag is specified, they may select multiple items from the list. =back =head2 Once a listbox has been created, items are appended to the bottom like this: $listbox->Append($item1, $item2, ...); Appending is not the only way to add items to the list. You can insert items in any position by telling the item that should be before with the following command: $listbox->Insert($before, $item1, $item2, ...); And you can change any item just by telling: $listbox->Set($original, $new); Of course you can delete entries: $listbox->Delete($item1, $item2, ...); Or just clear out the listbox: $listbox->Clear(); You can select and unselect items, with the following: $listbox->Select($item1, $item2, ...); $listbox->Unselect($item1, $item2, ...); $listbox->ClearSelection(); but if you did not sepecify the flag C when constructing your listbox, only the last item on the argument list of C will remain selected. To get a list of the selected items, just issue: @selected_items = $listbox->Get(); =head2 Scales Scales provide an easy way for telling the user the advance on some lengthy operation. It is a horizontal bar graph which the application updates as the operation continues: $scale = Newt::Scale($width, $fullvalue); It is set as expected: $scale->Set($amount); =head2 Textboxes A text box is used for displaying large amounts of text. They are created as follows: $textbox = Newt::Textbox($width, $height, $flags, $text, ...); The $text parameter is optional, and if not supplied, the textbox is created only, but it does not fill it with data. To do so, use: $textbox->Set($text, ...); All the arguments are simply concatenated using the double quote operator. The flags that can be passed to the constructor are the following: =over =item C All text in the textbox should be wrapped to fit the width of the textbox. If this flag is not specified, each newline-delimited line in the text is truncated if it is too long to fit. When Newt wraps text, it tries not to break lines on spaces or tabs. Literal newline characters are respected, and may be used to force line breaks. =item C The text should be scrollable. When this option is used, the scrollbar which is added increases the width of the area used by the textbox by 2 characters. =back =head2 Reflowing text When applications need to display large amounts of text, it is common not to know exactly where the linebreaks should go. While textboxes are quite willing to scroll the text, the programmer still must know what width the text will look ``best'' at (where ``best'' means most exactly rectangular; no lines much shorter or much longer then the rest). This common is specially prevalent in internationalized programs, which need to make a wide variety of message string look good on a screen. To help with this, Newt provides routines to reformat text to look good. It tries different widths to figure out which one will look ``best'' to the user. As these commons are almost always used to format text for textbox components, Newt makes it easy to construct a textbox with reflowed text. The following function reflows the provided text to a target width. the actual width of the longest line in the returned text is between C<$width - $flexdown> and C<$width + $flexup>; the actual maximum line length is chosen to make displayed text look rectangular. The function returns a tuple consisting of the reflowed text and the actual width and height of it. ($r_text, $width, $height) = Newt::ReflowText($width, $flexdown, $flexup, $text); When the reflowed text is being placed in a textbox it may be easier to use the following: $textbox = Newt::TextboxReflowed($width, $flexdown, $flexup, $flags, $text, ...); which creates a textbox, reflows the text, and places the reflowed text in the listbox. Its parameters consist of the position of the final textbox, the width and flex values for the text (which are identical to the parameters passed to C, and the flags for the textbox (which are the same as the flags for C. This function does not let you limit the height of the textbox, however, making limiting its use to constructing textboxes which do not need to scroll. To find out how tall the textbox created by C is, use C, which returns the number of lines in the textbox. For textboxes created by C, this is always the same as the height of the textbox. Please note that the order of the parameters of Newt::ReflowText and Newt::TextboxReflowed differs from the C API to allow lists of text but currently only TextboxReflowed allows this. =head2 Scrollbars Scrollbars may be attached to forms to let them contain more data than they have space for. Currently, there can only be vertical scrollbars: $scroll = Newt::VScrollbar($height, $normalColorset, $thumbColorset); When a scrollbar is created, it is given a position on the screen, a height, and two colors. The first color is the color used for drawing the scrollbar, and the second color is used for drawing the thumb. This is the only place in newt where an application specifically sets colors for a component. It s done here to let the colors a scrollbar use match the colors of the component the scrollbar is mated too. When a scrollbar is being used with a form, C<$normalColorset> is often C and C<$thumbColorset> C. If you do not want to bother with colors, you can omit the last two parameters and let Newt use the defaults. As the scrollbar is normally updated by the component it is mated with, there is no public interface for moving the thumb. =head1 Panels Panels are high level grid-like constructs that are used to group components. You create them by specifying the number of columns and rows you want, as well as a caption to be used when the panel is displayed as a toplevel: $panel = Newt::Panel(2, 3, "Panel example"); When run, panels are centered by default, but you can specify a position relative to the topleft corner of the screen by appending two optional integers: $panel = Newt::Panel(2, 3, "Panel example", 5, 5); Adding components to a panel is straightforward, you just have to indicate the position the component will take in the grid: $panel1->Add(0, 0, $mycomponent); Several optional parameters my however be used when adding components: $panel1->Add($col, $row, $mycomponent, $anchor, $padleft, $padtop, $padright, $padbottom, $flag); You can specify the side of the cell to which the component will be aligned by specifying an anchor. The anchor values avalaible are C, C, C, C. You can ask for more space on the sides of the component, perhaps to get a cleaner, less cluttered presentation using the padding parameters, and specifiying an integer value. Panels may be nested. For this to be done you only have to add a panel to another as you would with any other component. To run a panel as a toplevel and get user input, you may do the following: ($reason, $data) = $panel->Run(); if ($reason eq NEWT_EXIT_HOTKEY) { if ($data eq NEWT_KEY_F12) { print "F12 hotkey was pressed\n"; } else { print "Some hotkey other than F12 was pressed\n"; } } else { print 'Form terminated by button ', $data->Tag(), "\n"; } As can be seen on the example, when called in a list context C returns two values, one is the reason why the form terminated and the other is an associated data. In a scalar context only the data is returned. Posible values for the reason are: =over =item C The form exited because a hotkey was pressed. The associated data contains the key pressed, that is, one of NEWT_KEY_* values. See Hotkeys later for more information. =item C The form exited because a component was activated, a button, for instance a button. The associated data is a reference to the component involved. =back =head2 Hotkeys Normally, a panel terminates when the user presses a button, but you can define some keys as "hotkeys" that will make the C function return with C. Yo do this by issuing the folowing: $panel->AddHotKey(NEWT_KEY_F11); F12 is always defined to be a hotkey. =head2 Drawing panels instead of running them When you run a panel the terminal is blocked until the user presses a component or a key that causes the panel to exit. Sometimes is useful to present the interface to the user without blocking the execution of code. This can be done by only drawing the panel, not running it. It is easy to show an advance status for a lengthy operation like this: $i = 1; foreach (@items) { $label->Set("Processing item $i"); $panel->Draw(); $scale->Set($i); process_item($_); $i++ } =head2 Hiding panels Panels can be hidden in case you want by using the following: $panel->Hide() =head1 Constants You can import all the constants exported by this package as needed or using several predefined tags, with the following syntax: use Newt qw(:exits :keys); =over =item exits NEWT_EXIT_* constants =item keys NEWT_KEY_* constants =item anchors NEWT_ANCHOR_* constants =item colorsets NEWT_COLORSET_* constanst =item flags NEWT_FLAG_* constants =item entry NEWT_ENTRY_* constants =item fd NEWT_FD_* constants =item grid NEWT_GRID_* constants =item textbox NEWT_TEXTBOX_* constants =item macros macros to make useful buttons and panels: OK_BUTTON, CANCEL_BUTTON, QUIT_BUTTON, BACK_BUTTON, OK_CANCEL_PANEL, OK_BACK_PANEL. This macros only create components which are properly tagged. =back =head1 TO DO =over =item Scrollable panels. =item Some forms stuff, like watching file descriptors. =back =head1 SEE ALSO I, by Erik Troan. =head1 THANKS TO Erik Troan, for writing this useful library. Thanks for his tutorial, too, from where I stole complete paragraphs for this documentation, I'm afraid. =head1 AUTHOR The original author of the Red Hat newt library is Erik Troan, > The author of this Perl bindings is Alejandro Escalante Medina, > =head1 DATE Version 0.1, 5th Nov 1998 =cut